Host nutrition alters the variance in parasite transmission potential

Biology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Vale, Pedro F ^a,d   Choisy, Marc ^b,c   Little, Tom J ^d  

^a CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^b University de Montpellier   (France)

^c OXFORD UNIVERSITY CLINICAL RESEARCH UNIT   (Viet Nam)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Daphnia; Disease transmission; Nutrition; Super shedding; Variance

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; CRUSTACEAN; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; NUTRITION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL SPORE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CHLORELLA VULGARIS; DAPHNIA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; FOOD; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PASTEURIA; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL LOAD; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CHLORELLA VULGARIS; DAPHNIA; FEMALE; FOOD; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PASTEURIA; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874134856     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.1145     Document Type: Article

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